I suppose any job can be stressful. I would imagine those who were put to work on other projects might not be happy. Breaking up a team is tough.
- Rodfather
The FF guys and gals are serial entrepreneurs. They enjoy creating and doing things on their own. Guaranteed they will leave FB at some point in the next 3 to 5 years if not sooner. Someone from the originals will leave in the next 6 months.
- CW™
I'm guessing I won't get any FriendFeed likes on this post.
- Cristo
@Bindu: Yeah, because he doesn't like telecommuting.
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
Gary may not like telecommuting, but the reasons given for employees leaving are usually framed so it doesn't reflect badly on either the company or the individual. The most common one is "leaving to spend more time with family."
- Cristo
Today, I decided to have some fun at the mall by walking up to random women, and saying in a stern voice, "I know about the affair." Four said they didn't know what I was talking about, five begged me not to tell their husbands, and three women paid me off. New hobby? I think so. - http://mylifeisaverage.com/story...
So, I made this epic sandwich you're totally jealous of; fresh baguette, lettuce, tomato, onion, "cheddar", avocado, chicken...Only problem is that as big a mouth as I have, I can not eat this thing. I'm *gnawing* it.
you lost me at "onion" ... otherwise sounds fabulous
- Bren, Photophobe
Bren! That shocks me you don't like onion.
- Anika
I love cooking with onion, but I don't much care to eat it raw (or cooked, for that matter... I really just like the flavor it imparts in cooking)
- Bren, Photophobe
drop the tomato and add some ranch dressing!
- Justin Korn
Bren, that's like me with mushrooms. I'll cook with them, but prefer not to have to eat them. Justin, I skipped on the ranch this time around. Something about this chicken and ranch that just isn't pleasant together.
- Anika
Ah, okay, Adam...I thought it was about 9:30. I just saw it's almost 11:15. Time for bed!
- Anika
Dear Google: Please get rid of this page. Just add a setting so I can say "always use Google Reader for RSS feeds." (Or vice versa, or an option to always ask if someone uses both.) I've been going through this extra step for years now, and I am really tired of it.
I really wish they would kill it. I *NEVER* want to add a feed to my google homepage. I never go there.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Exactly, Rah. I've never chosen the Homepage option. Google knows everything about me, they should know by now that this page is worthless to me. And seriously, now with Google's profiles and centralized accounts, a persistent setting for this should be a piece of cake to implement.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Agree, always on the Reader! Great tool!
- John Tastad
Does it, Mitchell? I have Feedly installed at home, but I haven't noticed. I use Chrome at work, though.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Google Homepage just isn't needed for anything. I wish they'd pull the plug on that thing.
- Matthew DeVries
that is why i use the google reader "subscribe" bookmarklet ;-) (edit: you can find it in your google reader settings)
- Stanislas Jourdan
Jandy: there is a preview of feedly for chrome. If you are interested, please send me an email at edwink@devhd.com and I will send you an invite.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
"IBM" is an abbreviation, not an acronym; acronyms are *pronounceable* abbreviations. "USA PATRIOT Act" is an acronym (stands for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism"). Some abbreviations are acronyms only depending upon how they're pronounced ("SQL" is an example).
Anthony is honored to have just met - and exchanged courtesies with - the President of the United States. And that was, as the kids say, pretty effin’ cool.
you promised us you'd say some dramatic line to him, did ya panic and go with "wussup?"
- Steve C
@Steve: actually no, I cried like a little girl and peed myself, as is my longstanding personal tradition whenever meeting current or former Heads of State. It's simply good protocol; they seem to love it...
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
Somehow I believe you, Anthony but still - pics or it didn't happen!
- WorldofHiglet
@WoH: "somehow?" ha, gee thanks! There are no pics of this one, I'm afraid (although there are almost surely pool pics of me at the ropeline early in the night) and believe me it bugs me more than the rest o' yaz. Hopefully @ the next one I get a proper photo op.
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
@ahsan: dinner at the Beverly Hilton last night. (sorry, overlooked your q.)
- Anthony Citrano
:) You LA folk have personal photographers documenting your every move don't you?!? Don't tell me that not true because I saw it on the tv....Anyway, it must have been a very special moment. I hope you didn't cry and pee too much o_O
- WorldofHiglet
Cooler than that Best of Day thread about jock itch?
- Matthew DeVries
@charlie: about my personal moment (A: right here), or about the President coming to LA? (A: just about anywhere; pick your media poison.)
- Anthony Citrano
SO, can you tell us a little more about other than the wetting/crying?
- WorldofHiglet
Even though I can't stand Obama, I have to admit, your getting to meet the president is pretty cool.
- Joey Gibson
@WoH - I don't think I'll get into the blow-by-blow here (there's absolutely nothing of substance anyway.) However, I will almost surely draw on the experience for a future article.
- Anthony Citrano
Well I hope you do deign to share some little details with us sometime. When you can be bothered. In other news, did you see the new YouTube video from the WhiteHouseTV entitled "OMG!!!!! I met Anthony Citrano!!!!! For REALS!!!!!! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I hear it's going viral....
- WorldofHiglet
WoH: don't make fun o' me! we've already determined I cry easily. ;)
- Anthony Citrano
Ooopsie - my bad. I forgot you were such a delicate little flower :)
- WorldofHiglet
If you shook his hand, you have been changed. : )
- Phil Boiarski
@Phil - I did twice. Should I not have showered? ;)
- Anthony Citrano
I really don't understand why people let their cats outside to roam the streets. It isn't safe for the cat and it is inconsiderate to other people.
- Katy S
it has a flea collar but no signs of a tag. and no cat person would leave that much of the extra flea collar hanging loose like that - so it was probably put on by someone other than the owner.
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Thanks, Bear. I know nothing of these things. It seems hungry and needy. It seriously won't go away. All the other cats that treat my yard as their own, tend to ignore me. If I say, "Go away, cat.", they do. This one mews.
- Anika
Katy S: Our cat stays outside because we have Pit Bulls inside. And they would love to eat it.
- Danny Minick
Okay, I'm gonna have to go inside. This cat won't stop staring it me. Freaking me out.
- Anika
It's a beautiful cat. I'd take it off your hands if I lived close enough. Even the hungriest of strays don't get that friendly, so it looks like the cat belonged to or interacted with someone who showed it enough kindness and affection that it knows to go to people for food and love.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Such a beautiful kitty! If I was closer, I'd seriously be tempted... ;-)
- vicster
Wonderful markings. If it has it's front claws I'd so take it (never dealing with another declawed cat again, too much stress)
- Matthew DeVries
It is a pretty cat. My friend has a cat with similar markings and she's nowhere near as friendly.
- Anika
Danny - why would you have a cat if you have dogs that would eat it? Or, the other side, if you have a cat, why would you get a dog that would harm it?
- Katy S
Matthew - what type of stress? I've been around a lot of declawed cats and they never seemed to behave any different than those with claws. Not saying I like declawing, but I just haven't experiences any behavioral differences between those that have and haven't been declawed.
- Katy S
Katy - Stress for me. If a normal cat escapes, you try to find them, but you don't worry about them. They can handle themselves, when the declawed inside only cats escape, you lose your freakin mind trying to find it ASAP cause you know they won't last a night alone.
- Matthew DeVries
Oh! I get that. If the cat's a door darter, that would be stressful. Some who are against de-clawing claim it is stressful for the cat. I've never seen empirical evidence for this - just anecdotal, which can be refuted by anecdotal to the contrary. Now, I have other concerns about amputating a cat's toes, but stress isn't one of them. They do lose their primary means of defense (+ hunting tools) if they are outside.
- Katy S
Katy S: I can't help the fact that it's the dog's nature to chase/murder cats. Plus my dad wanted dogs after our house was broken in to. Twice this year.
- Danny Minick
I think something about being properly clawed also develops intelligence in cats. Every "stupid" cat I've ever met has been declawed.
- Matthew DeVries
Danny - Sorry about the break-ins. I guess if it were me, I would have either tried to find a new home for the cat or looked at dog breeds that get along with cats. Pit Bulls, Chow chows, and several other breeds are notorious for not living in harmony with cats. When I was a kid, we had a great dane that got along great with the cat and also served to scare away pretty much anyone who came around. I guess we all make our choices, though.
- Katy S
Matthew - I've seen dumb and smart in both varieties. Or, maybe it's more lazy and not-lazy with cats. I sometimes think that they just don't want us to know they are actually smarter than us.
- Katy S
it is a cute kitty! too bad Im allergic.. Ill just wait for daily update pics of the cute kat ^_^ jk :P
- Rachael Depp
we use to have one that was paper trained so Bunky had run of the house.........she would sit and beg for hershey kisses(cold ones) and always had to have the first Mallomar out of the box ........
- VAL D.
Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals - Boing Boing - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
"For months (years?) Rupert Murdoch has been waving his jowls around and shouting that Google is stealing from him by not paying to index his material. And all along, we've been saying, "Pffft, right. If you don't like it, just add a robots.txt file that tells Google not to index you. Until you do, stop whining and put it back in your pants." Now Rupert has promised to do exactly that. He claims that he's going to take all of News Corp's websites pay-only and have them removed from Google when he does. You know what? He's lying. But I think it'd be entertaining if every reporter who interviewed him, for the rest of his life, said, "Hey, Rupert, when are you going to take all your company's websites out of Google?" It'd also be hilarious to get the CEOs of the various pieces of Rupert's empire to comment on whether they want all their company's materials invisible to search engines. Rupert also thinks that fair use is illegal and that the right court case would result in it being...
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- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
Is he going to get a visit from the Spirits of Xmas Past, Present and Future?
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift